Carrie Etter (born 1969) is an American poet.

Life

Originally from

Normal, Illinois Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and Illinois' seventh most ...

, she moved to Southern

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at the age of 19, and on to

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in 2001. Etter holds a BA from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, and an MFA, MA and PhD from the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

. She was a visiting lecturer at the

University of Hertfordshire The University of Hertfordshire (UH) is a public university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The university is based largely in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Its antecedent institution, Hatfield Technical College, was founded in 1948 and was ident ...

for 2003–2004, teaching short-story writing and literature. She was a Reader at

Bath Spa University Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about west of the centre of the city. The university has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshire. The insti ...

, where she taught between 2004 and 2022. She is currently guiding the new poetry provision in

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

's Masters in Creative Writing. In the UK, her poems have appeared in ''The New Statesman'', ''Poetry Review'', ''The Rialto'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', and elsewhere, while in the US her poems have appeared in ''The Iowa Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''Seneca Review'', and many other journals. She is also an essayist and a critic. Her reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in ''The Independent'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Times Literary Supplement'', among others. Etter has published essays on Sherman Alexie, Peter Reading and W. B. Yeats. She won a 2010

London Awards for Art and Performance The London Awards for Art and Performance is awarded in 11 different art categories, by the London Festival Fringe. It is awarded each year, at a central London venue, and is presented to artists and performers who have made an outstanding contrib ...

, the London New Poetry Award for a best first collection published in the UK and Ireland in the preceding year, for ''The Tethers''. In 2013 she received an Authors' Foundation grant from the Society of Authors for work on her third collection, ''Imagined Sons'', which went on to be shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry by the Poetry Society.

Poetry collections

* ''Subterfuge of the Unrequitable'': Poets & Poets Press, 1998, (pamphlet/chapbook) * ''Yet'': Leafe Press, 2008, (pamphlet/chapbook) * ''The Tethers'': Seren Books, 2009, * ''The Son'': Oystercatcher Press, 2009, (pamphlet/chapbook) * ''Divining for Starters'': Shearsman Books, 2011, * ''Imagined Sons'': Seren Books, 2014,

Anthologies

*Carrie Etter (ed) ''Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets'', Shearsman Books, 2010,

References

External links

Carrie Etter's personal blog

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